Vocabulary practice-U3L1 -Start up 8

Hank says the Great Pyramid is

• hunch

• fascination

• gargantuan

• baffling

Al says it's __________ to him how Hanks knows so much ___________ about the ancient pyramid.

• enigma / trivia

• hunch / fascination

• conclusive / fascination

• baffling / trivia

Jean talks about her ______________ with Khufu, the driving force behind the Great Pyramid.

• conclusive

• fascination

• trivia

• baffling

Khufu is an ________________ to her.

• enigma

• evidence

• hunch

• gargantuan

Alicia has a _____________________ that Jean is going to start reading more about Khufu.

• hunch

• evidence

• fascination

• trivia

The students say there was no ________________ information to solve the mysteries of the Great Pyramid for centuries.

• gargantuan

• enigma

• conclusive

• baffling

The first breakthrough occurred with the introduction of a scientific approach to archeology and the ______________ it supplied.

• enigma

• fascination

• conclusive

• evidence

The confidential documents were ____________ in secrecy, accessible only to a select few.

• shrouded

• enigma

• intrigue

• fascination

Most of the works are in codex form, a few in ____________.

• evidence

• conclusive

• scrolls

• intrigue

The lure of urban legends and modern myths is one of __________________, shock, fear and fascination.

• gargantuan

• intrigue

• hunch

• conclusive